International Federation of Social Workers

JULY 12, 2024

On the 9th July the IFSW UN Commission team in North America hosted a side event at the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.

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Community Care

JULY 12, 2024

By Sorcha Morgan, head of service, CFAB Recently, I closed Baby Leo’s case. His mother had been unable to care for him due to her substance misuse and consideration was given to him being cared for by his maternal grandmother in Italy, who had been identified as a potential carer earlier in proceedings. The local authority had initially sought an assessment through the Central Authority for the Hague Convention 1996 (see box) but the standard of reporting and analysis was too brief and so the lo

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The Guardian

JULY 12, 2024

Readers respond to Michael Aylwin’s article about his wife’s dementia I am not ashamed to say that I wept while reading Michael Aylwin’s article ( ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s’, 9 July ). He has articulated so many of the feelings and experiences that my wife and I have encountered across the more than 10 years since her diagnosis.

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Community Care

JULY 12, 2024

New chairs have been announced for the two principal social worker networks that represent PSWs in England. Cheshire West and Chester Council’s Gavin Butler and Kate Concannon, the PSW in Southampton, will take the helm of the Adult Principal Social Worker (APSW) Network for the next two years. They succeed Sarah Range (Southend) and Hannah Scaife (South Gloucestershire), and will be supported by new vice-chairs Vanna Changlee (Waltham Forest), Seanna Lasseter (Walsall) and Coleen Simon (C

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